May 30, 2025 • 38 mins
Doug reacts to the latest reports of the NCAA looking to expand the Tournament field and explains why such a move is certain to happen. Doug believes the Patriots should cut Stefon Diggs immediately. Doug reacts to the Knicks taking Game 5 from the Pacers. Former NFL GM Mark Dominik joins Doug to explain why he wouldn't allow his player to play Olympic Flag Football. Plus, Doug previews the World Series rematch!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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got nothing to new, Hey, just listen in here to
Fox Sports Radio. We're getting ready for a weekend where
we'll have a game Game six in the Eastern Conference Finals.
That's because the New York Nickobakas took down the Indiana
Pacers Tyrese Haliburton off of one of the one of
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the greatest games we've ever seen played statistically to just
a guy, right, like literally just a guy like Yeah,
who's the guy who like people are arguing about being
a superstar, like that guy one with eight points and
eight shots. Yeah, I don't know. We'll get to that.
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We got a lot of interesting stuff. Mark Dominic's gonna
join us. We'll get you ready. As we got OTAs
getting underway. This another strange tale on the long and
winding path of Zion Williamson. We'll get to that next hour,
but I want to start with this. We talked about
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it some yesterday, but it does relate to all sports.
And you know, there's been a push in the NBA
for I don't know, seven eight years. You know what
we should do is have fewer games, don't have back
to backs, too much travel, quality of the product's not great.
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We should have fewer games. Aor League Baseball used to
have one fifty four they have won sixty two. There
was there's been years which there's been talking of. You
know what we need to do is have We've had
the contraction fewer teams and we've had the fewer games thing.
And if you'll notice the NFL, which is the healthiest,
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they're fighting on more games, but they end up always
getting them right. There was a long fight over Game seventeen,
but they got it, and now there is a fight
over Game eighteen, but they're going to get it because
the NFL makes money every time they play a football game,
and everybody likes to make money. And there's a lot
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of reasons why NBA games, why Major League baseball games
won't be contracted. But for the most part, there's just
one reason. That reason is money. And I do think
that there are people who don't understand, even people in power,
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who don't understand exactly what is valuable about your sport.
The brilliance of the NFL is not just increasing regular
season games. They've increased playoff games. Those are the most watched,
those are the most important, and those are the ones
which you can print money by just simply putting out there,
which they have right. They want to negotiate ESPN a
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new deal. Wanto ESPN to keep paying through the nose
from undernet football. Hey, we'll throw in a wild card
football game. It's a game that you never had, we
never had before. You know you're going to get twenty
five million people or so watching. Again, the value is remarkable.
So I bring this to the NCAA tournament in college basketball,
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where everyone says, you know, it's perfect. Why expand Then
there's a story out today where some people, some executive
some TV executives think there's not much value in it.
That you're talking about early first round games, not much
more value. Yeah, it doesn't doesn't do much. Won't be
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much more money made by the NCAA. So here's the response.
The first thing is, I need you to listen to me, really,
really carefully. I told you long time ago that Lebron
James wasn't leaving LA. I told you a matter of
fact before he signed in LA that of any of
the teams that he was considering, he will never play
in San Antonio because San Antonio back when Greg Popfitch
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was the coach, and they'll still have this mantra. It
was get over yourself. Lebron James is a great player,
one of the all time greatest players, not just in
his sport, in any sport to play. But there's one
thing that he's not. It's over himself. I told you
it would not happen. It's not even part of the consideration.
Just like I told you this year. I don't care
what Rich Paul says. He wasn't considering doing anything other
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than come back for the Lakers. The only issue now
is how is Lebron James going to hang around for
Bronnie's rookie year? Make them draft Bronnie, not make him
draft Brice. All right, but let's let's not get a
year out for me predicting and telling you that he's
going to stay. His last year with the Lakers is
going to be next year when they draft Bryce James.
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They don't have both his sons with him on the
floor at the same time. And as ridiculous as it is,
I mean, you got to put on a ninety five
percent chance of it happening, right, guy wants to be
the perfect father. Can't be the perfect father if you
play favorites and only hang around for Bronnie when you
clearly can hang out for Bryce's that's not playing favorites anyway.
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I told you lebron wasn't retiring. I told you wasn't
going to San Antonio. I told you wasn't going anywhere else.
I'm telling you now. Major League Baseball and in the
NBA are not contracting games because all those sites, all
those arenas, they have a certain number of dates which
are part of the least agreement. Everybody makes money on it,
and unless athletes and coaches and front office is going
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to take less money from less profit, they're not going
to ever contract the games ever. And my guess is
with the NCAAA they will only do this if it
opens up their TV window for negotiating you because people
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are right, like, there is some value to it, But
if those are first four games, what's really the value.
The value in the NCAA Tournament is the sixty four
team bracket. That's what everybody bets on. It's everybody gambles on,
everybody turns in. That's where your grandma has just as
good a shot as you do of winning a set
of state knives. And if you expand to seventy two
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seventy six, you can still be cute and make those
play in games. But if you make those playing games,
you're still only going to get a couple of million viewers.
And you're talking about expanding from sixty eight to seventy two,
two more basketball games. That's it, two more basketball games
to seventy six. Its formre basketball games. So does that
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value sure? Is it untold millions of dollars? Yeah? So
the prediction is is this Ryan Bersching or is this
Sam is this Isaac lowincron one? There is zero chance
they're not going to expand. Zero And you're like, why
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would they expand? Why would they try? Because they can
make more money and right now, no matter what you think,
everybody needs more money because now you got to pay
the players, and all the calculations are screwed up because
previously you plan for it. Hey, the men's basketball takes this,
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football takes this. Everybody else gets this. Coaches get this.
This is what we do for Scott, this is what
we do now all a sudden, you're talking from you know,
a couple hundred thousand at our level to ten to
twenty million at the highest level. That money comes from.
It all comes from one pot, basically, and the only
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way to increase that pot is to find valuable assets.
And the only valuable asset the NCAA has in basketball
is the tournament. The problem is, unless it triggers a
completely new round of negotiations for their TV rights, it
just doesn't have that much value. And if they do
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it despite the fact it doesn't have that much value,
and they only increase it by I don't know ten
they're making a billion a year, what's a billion dollar
deal whatever, unless it increases at a huge rate because
they can open it up to open bidders, doesn't have
a lot of value. It just does not. And if
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that's the case, then you know that there is desperation
in the streets to get any possible last dollar. That's
when you're basically going to a pawnshop and just hey,
just give me what you can. I'll take whatever you
can give me. I just need some money here. So
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either TV becomes a pawnshop for college basketball and college
sports because it's all kind of wrapped together, not the
not college football, or what I think is more likely,
is there some sort of sort of clause where they
can reopen negotiations if they get to more games, and
that's the only way they get the negotiations either way.
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I get it. I love the sixty fourteen bracket. I'm
all for it. But I also understand that everything costs
more money, and the only way to make more money
is to sell the most valuable thing you have, and
that's the NCAA Tournament. All Right, We got a bunch
to get to today here on The Doug Gottlieb Show
on Fox Sports Radio. Do you look at the Eastern
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Speaker 2 (10:56):
Right wig three Broughts it off the triple he cut
it in one four point play opportunity for Brunston at
the next half at eighty one's sixty four league.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Uh so there's I mean, look, Brunson was great, Carl
Anthony Towns was great, and the Knicks controlled the game,
and then you got Tyrese Haliburton who played thirty two
minutes and only scored eight points and just very pedestrian stats.
And look, it will all be forgotten if he has
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another spectacular performance in Game six when they close out
the Knicks. But this is the if you ever wondered
why people don't consider Tyrese Haliburton among the best of
the best of the best in terms of point guards
in the league. There's your answer, because there are just
some games in which he's just a guy out there.
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And look again, I could even say to myself, dude,
that's a lot a burden to always but that's the
that's the gig, right, that's the gig. So you may
not like it. You may think it's unfair, you may
think it's over the judgmental of one game here or
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one game there. Again, I think you're probably right. Unfortunately,
that's how big boy sports are played. In a game
of that magnitude, albeit on the road, you just can't
have a he's just out there now, maybe they're saving
their energy, maybe they're laying in wait, they're waiting to
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run the knicks off the floor in game six possibility.
And again, I'm about making the right play, not just
trying to force things. But he was a little passive.
He did just kind of play. They kind of went
through the motions and they get their asses beat. I
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do have a step on Diggs opinion. I want to
get to Mark Domini's going to join us we got
game time upcoming as well. Thanks for listening to The
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It is the Doug Gottlieb Show you listen to Fox
Sports Radio. So I've got a lot of thinking on
the Stefan Diggs thing. And I know he signed a
three year deal. I know he's coming off knee injury.
I know he's really talented, although he's more towards the
end not towards the beginning of his career. So I'm
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not saying his career is over, but I I'm telling
you right now, I would cut him. I don't think it.
I don't even think it's a question. And you may
say to yourself, hey, Doug, he wasn't taking those drugs
on the video. The drugs that are in was it
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two sy that's called the pink cocaine aren't necessarily cocaine.
Ketamine can be that's puny illegal. It's not even the point. Okay,
it's not even the point. The point is that he
knew he was being filmed, whether he knew he was
going to be sent out to the world or not,
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and he quite obviously didn't care. The one thing he
did care about is why he gave the women the
drugs that they could take. He didn't even have to
take it himself. I don't care. You're Mike Vrabel, and
though Vrabel is a player's coach, that doesn't mean you're
a pushover. And I get you know, professional sports, there's
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lots that we don't know. We don't know how many
guys take recreational drugs. We don't I think perception is
worse than reality. Although maybe I'm wrong, you know, maybe
I'm too much for prude. I truly do not know.
But it looks awful, awful awful to have and brasionally
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hand out some drugs while being filmed and not even
going like, hey, don't fill that, or wait till the
camera's not rolling, and then you do it again doesn't
make it right. It's just every layer of it. And
then when you factor in. Okay, Steffan Diggs leaves the bills,
they get better. Steffan Diggs is added to Houston, they
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get worse. Not all his fault because he got hurt.
I got it. But if there's one thing I've learned,
and I already knew, but I've learned, is chemistry is everything.
And you could sit there and go like, hey, that
looks like a little chemical kit, right, That's exactly what
pink cocaine is. It's a chemical creation where you put
a little this and a little that in. That's funny,
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It's really funny. I just I'd cut him. I wouldn't
really think twice about it.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Yes, Sam, I'll go back to this. I feel like
if Bill Belichick was still the coach he would have been,
he would have been gone after this. It's just a distraction.
And I don't know what this does if they do
get rid of Stefan Diggs. I mean he's thirty one.
What this would do to New England's depth at wide receiver.
I can't even think off the top of my head.
Who there are other options? Are? Like their tight end
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didn't uh is is it Hunter Henry? Yah?
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:27):
So like they have a good tight end. But I
can't I think that they're going to keep him because
they don't have anybody else to throw the ball to.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Again, I've been there before. And as much as you say, like, hey,
how can we do that, you can't do anything if
you allow that to be part of your program. I
don't know if Bill Belichick would have I know we
all have an impression of Bill Belichick as his hardcore disciplinarian.
I mean, he did have Aaron Hernandez on his team,
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you know, like they only got rid of aeron Is
because they had to. And it appears that Internet was
doing a lot of stuff. And that's where we don't
know the inner workings of teams and what really happens
and what guys are really doing and they really get caught.
And that that's why I'm not being a mortalist about it.
I'm not saying you do drugs, you're off the team.
I'd like it to be that way, but I don't
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know enough. Neither do any of us. But but you're
being filmed girlfriends downstairs, sleeping it off. You had three
girls you're clearly hitting on. You break out some some
pink cocaine and you brazenally make you know, don't hide
it from any camera, and you're having just a great time.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
I just buy it's not even so much drugs starting.
It's the filming thing. It's it's the it's the creating
of a distraction, you know, right.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
It's it's both. It's the it's the womanizing, the the drugs,
but also wrap in with the camera and allowing it
out to the world. I just I could be dead
wrong And yeah, yeah, if he was, you know, twenty
six year old Stefan Diggs, would you would it be different?
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I'd hope it wouldn't, but the reality is it would.
He's thirty one, and it's just a terrible look for
a guy coming off of an injury injured year and
coming off of getting shipped away by you know, he's
been shipped away by three teams. And maybe now you're
seeing why. Now you're seeing why? Uh, Eilo, what do
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you say?
Speaker 4 (18:34):
We?
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Mark Dom was going to join us bottom half of
the hour. How about we get to a game.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Well, let's do it. And today's game on this lovely Friday.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Is let's get this started. Let's get the start on
the right foot.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Here, Let's let's there we go.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
This is game time game on the Doug Gottlieb Show.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
All right, what you got there, I though I got.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
DIBs all right, gang, ye, let's start at Madison Square Garden.
You know the focus of the basketball world now with
this riveting Eastern Conference Finals series. But I want you
guys to turn the focus to the first few rows,
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and I want you to pick who you got DIBs
on amongst the great number of New York Knicks celebrity fans.
Who do you have DIBs on celebrity New York nick fans?
Speaker 1 (19:37):
So?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
I got DIBs on Ben Stiller. I've always liked him.
He's a good comedic mind. He's comedic royalty, him and
his father. I've always liked Ben Stiller. I think he's
a nice guy and his some of his movies in
the nineties were some of my favorites of all time.
Ben Stiller I got DIBs on.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
And he's not a Johnny come Lately either.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Oh yeah, he's a pure He's a pure, purest New
York sports fan.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Am I allowed to make a selection here? Yes, yes,
I'm actually gonna draft Timothy Schallomey.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
You're drafting him.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
I got DIBs on Timothy, or callame, because dude, I
really know nothing about him as an actor, and I
first had a bad impression of him as a Johnny
Come Lately. But he is a legitimate old school Knicks fan,
so I know nothing about his thespian capabilities. Yeah, like
back as a kid. He there's a picture of him
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like with a couple of Knicks, like twelve years ago
when he was like twelve or whatever. So I do
have grudging respect for Timothy Shallowy as not a bandwagon
Knicks fan.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Tim tell May I learned yesterday day before. He's the
one in Dune.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Yes, yes, he's in Dune.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Have you seen Dune? I love?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Uh No, I wrote on one back in the day,
but uh it was a joke.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
He is a good He is a big Spool fan.
Like he's gonna be one of those guys because he's
twenty nine years old. He's gonna be popping up a
game day and you know, a big noon kickoff, and
he's gonna be one of those guys that loves to
show up at sporting events and be seen and talk
about sports. So he's cool. He's a cool dude.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Because one of these things that I find really annoying
is a team makes the conference finals or the finals
in its respective sport, and a bunch of celebrities just
show up to be seen and get their picture taken,
and they squeeze out the true sports fans. But by
the way, you guys know that the likes of Spike
Lee and Chris Rock are still out there for you
guys to have DIBs on. I'm just saying, what are
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you doing.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
I just took it to pick I Low Rocks. Dude.
All right, I'm gonna go with Tracy Morgan.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Yeah, good one, Right, that's what I missed.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Let's go Tracy Morgan. All my thinking is, obviously Spike
Lee is synonymous as celebrity Knicks fan, but I do
think I'm just kind of tired of the Spike Lee thing.
That's it. So I'm gonna go Tracy Morgans. We're gonna
really die at a Knicks game.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
I mean, yes, he has paid a documented price to
be a Knicks fan.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
He had an accident on the court, but also he
was involved. Yeah, well he actually did almost really die.
I think he his like tour bus was hit by
like a Walmart semi or something and bad car accident.
I loved him on SNL. I loved him on thirty rockets,
a goodchoine.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
No, no, no, he was a drunk driver hit him
right or something like that.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
I think it was like a Walmart semi. I'll check
on that, Okay.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
I I will take Spike Lee just because I think
he still does need to be taken by someone. At
least for me growing up, the most famous member of
the New York Knicks was Spike Lee in my generate,
because I'm I'm thirty two years old, so it wasn't
like the Knicks where ever, really like great when I
was young, So I kind of have always associated Spike
Lee with the Knicks.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Well, Bursch, it looks like you did the right thing. Sorry,
all right, don't.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Be Does he know what that's I do?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
I do? Yes, yes, do the right thing barely.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
I think he made the cutoff by about a year
or so. All right. So for our next edition of
I Guy Dibbs will kind of ask you to look
in your crystal ball a bit here because we have
technically three teams to pick from here. I want you
guys to get DIBs on potential NBA Finals MVPs. This
obviously from the thunder from the Pacers and the Knicks.
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Who do you got DIBs on is the most likely
NBA Finals MVP?
Speaker 1 (23:27):
I got Dibson, shake Yildes Alexander very good. Sorry, is boring, but.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Not boring at all. I'll take Tyre Saliburton.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Dang.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
I think he's going to come back to Indianapolis for
this game and go off. I think if I just
feel it, feel it in my bones. But yeah, we're
talking about the finals. M you know what, I'll just go.
I'll go with Jalen Brunson. If they somehow pull us
come back off and get to the finals.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
It's good, all right, very good, guys, all right, net
do any one more pick?
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (23:57):
I was gonna take Jalen Brunson, So.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Okay, So he's not there, so now you got to
pick somebody else.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Jeez, how about Hartenstein?
Speaker 1 (24:06):
No?
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Boy? You know what when we just.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Like to say Hartenstein, Yeah, when we're talking about.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Yeah, we're talking about NBA Finals MVPs, I'm not sure
there's really anybody else.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
I mean, I would say Jalen Brown won it last year.
It wasn't Jason Tatum, Andre Gadalo won it one year,
not Stephan Steph.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Curry about Pascal.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
J Dove Jalen Williams.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Yeah, all right, I'm gonna go passcal Siakam. I apologize
to Greg Doyle for that one inside a sports media joke.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
All right.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Next, we're going to turn to Major League Baseball, and
this weekend we have the rematch of the World Series
between the Dodgers and the Yankees. So I got I
want you guys to pick who you got DIBs on
as the star of this rematch series between the two
rosters between the Yankees and the Dodgers starting tonight, which
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you can catch at least maybe one and a half
percent of you can catch on Apple TV Plus. So
who you got DIBs on? Stars from the this weekend's
Dodgers Yankee series.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Show?
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Hey Otani, I'll just take him right away, shocked jump
right in.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Uh, I'm gonna go with.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
I got DIBs on Cody Bellinger, former Dodger the Cubs,
now with the Yankees kind of revived his career, you know.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Aaron Judge.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
I can't go wrong with a Judge eighteen home runs. Okay,
So there we go. Did you did you?
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (25:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Berthet you got? Sorry, There's plenty of good choices available. Isaac.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Yeah, all right, so we're gonna do one more baseball
one and then another one to send us out here.
You know, Doug, you were talking about the NCAA tournament
pool of teams and also as it relates to the
length of the NFL schedule, and it's all about money.
And I know that it's all about money and it
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would never necessarily happen. But you mentioned that Major League
Baseball used to be a one hundred and fifty four
game schedule. What would your ideal length be for a
Major League Baseball regular season schedule? What do you guys
got DIBs on? And I'm going to start by saying
one hundred and thirty games like they do in Japan,
So one thirty for me. How about the rest of y'all?
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Uh, problem one thirty is you're just you're hungry surely
thereafter for games that's Chinese food, I know. But I
would say, uh, hundred sixty two games.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Okay, fair, fair enough, that's certainly a keeping the status quo.
You guys, I would say it's probably between one thirty
with the two of.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
You, I'll take sixty. Because the Dodgers are undefeated in
the World Series, in terms.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Of sixty game seasons. So let's keep that rolling.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
You want a two month regular season starting August first,
and then at the end of September, sixty game season.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
We can have three seasons a year.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
We can do it at the all time home run
record twenty three.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Alright, Sam, I'll just go on the I'll go on
the opposite end of that. I'll just say two hundred
and fifty games a year round baseball. No rest such
as perpetual motion of baseball. So there's making money hand
over fist.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
And there is an assembly line of pictures in the
waiting room of well, not doctor jobs clinic, but.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
For off the IL, for backplaying. You're back on the IL.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
It's just yes, your life. There's no break for torn ligaments.
So wow, we had a wider spectrum on this. That
our final item on this edition of I got dibbs
Tennis Grand Slams. Obviously we're in the midst of the
French Open. We have four people in the room. Who
do you got DIBs on the best tennis Grand Slam?
Speaker 3 (28:10):
I got DIBs on Wimbledon. Right. I've been to London
a couple of times. I've not been inside that stadium.
But it's cool. That live Queen concert from the eighties
was badass.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
So I got damns on the US Open.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Ah, you beat me to it. So I'm gonna say,
French Open.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Australia is all nine.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
All right, looks like it's been a good day for you.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Brush.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Whow Why the French Open there?
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Doug? All right?
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Sorry?
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Why the US opened their.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Doug Because it's the best America. No hard courts, hardcourts,
great fans, you know, it's it's I mean, playing surface wise,
it's not. It's it's the most used, most well regarded,
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right whereas playing in the clay, which is like playing
in the dirt, is a completely different style. Same thing
with Wimbledon, but more than anything, just the fans of
New York, the energy there. It's a tournament unlike anything
else in the sport or in most professional sports.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
And that's game, set and match. See what I did
there for this edition of igotdibs.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
Game This is game time on the Doug Gottlieb Show.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Yes, the Doug Gottlieb Show on Fox Sports Radio coming
up next. If you're running the Patriots, which you cut
Stefan Diggs I'll ask a man who ran the Buccaneers next.
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You know, at that curious time when the when the
Western Conference Finals are and now we're waiting on game six.
Plus you got OTAs baseball. I mean, look, I know
(30:07):
baseball's going to go going on, but it's not like
it's it's reached any sort of crescendo or any sort
of of time of interest. I actually think the NFL
and these OTAs might be the most interesting because we're
starting to kind of sort of get a sense of
who's who, what's what. Still got a couple of guys
holding in, holding out doing their thing. Mark Dominic joins us,
former gentleman manager of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Uh, he's
(30:29):
worked his entire life in professional football. Mark let me
let me, ask you, Stefan Diggs. I just said, look,
I'd get rid of them. I would You know you
haven't played it down for the Patriots. There is an
image issue there, but it's not as look, the drugs
obviously bother me, but it's more like he's being filmed,
(30:52):
he knows he's being filmed, and he brazenly rips that,
whips out some drugs and hands it to a woman like.
I don't know. I just think it sets a terrible
look for an organization that's trying to get back on
the right path. I know he's been a really a
very good player for a good amount of time, but
there's always been some sort of unspoken chemistry issues which
(31:14):
keeps him moving from team to team to team. What
would you do if you're a gentleman manager of the Patriots.
Speaker 7 (31:19):
I think you make a very strong point in terms
of there's a reason why he's been moving from team
to team to team. I mean that, I think is
an underlying thing you have to look at. The first
thing you have to think about is when you have
an elite receiver in Minnesota's like, you.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
Know what, We're okay, Buffalo Like, yeah, you know, it's
not a fit.
Speaker 7 (31:33):
Houston's like, you can have him, so you know in
this situation, you know, the hard part is you gave
him twelve million dollars a sign on a three year deal.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
Can you walk out of this? Yes? Could want.
Speaker 7 (31:44):
Of all teams, they can, because it's the Patriots that
have the space.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
You know.
Speaker 7 (31:48):
I think this is one of those ones where I
have to have a conversation with them first understand what's
going on. But I don't disagree to Doug as much
as that's hard to do. And you're trying to build
this team. You got to build it the right way,
and he's not helping you do that right now.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
So would you get rid of him?
Speaker 4 (32:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (32:03):
I have no problems doing that, you know. And then
the reason I say that in a terrible way, I
love Damaro Douglas. I think he's going to be really
good player. I'm not sure where Kyle Wiams is going
to be. Matt Collins, Hollins is a good receiver. Their
hard part that they've got is that they're just trying
to figure out how good is Drake May and they
want to try to give him all the weapons. You
just they couldn't do it in one offseason. That's how
depleted they were. I'm comfortable letting him walk because I
(32:27):
don't want to. I don't want to upset the apple
cart of this football team and make sure that we're
all the same.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
So I'm with you. I would.
Speaker 7 (32:33):
You know, it's a bad look and it was a
bad video. And it wasn't just one videos, multiple videos.
You're like, what's going on here? Like to have some
You're supposed to be a leader.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Yeah, yeah, thirty one years old. I was supposed to
be a vet and this is how you announced your
presence on a new football team. Okay, the Aaron Rodgers
and picture. We keep waiting and waiting and waiting. But
before I get like super critical of he should be there,
he should you know whatever. The Steelers have to know, right,
(33:01):
It's not like they're sitting there they don't know what
his plan is, correct.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
I agree.
Speaker 7 (33:06):
I think they have to know, and I think they
do know. There's no way that at this point they're
just like, well, we'll just wait and see a little
bit longer and if he comes around, he does.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
No.
Speaker 7 (33:12):
I think Mike Tomlin knows. I think the organization knows
what it is, and you know, you can go one
way to the other. You're just not going to say anything,
and they're just going to let Aaron handle it however
he wants to. And again, Aaron might be on a
hiking tour through the Himalayans right now and just has
to get done with it. I have no idea, but
I do think that they certainly know and I still
think that he'll sign to Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Stett Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Okay, now
that the Brock party, we're starting to see some of
the numbers come out. What do you think of the deal?
Speaker 4 (33:45):
I think it's fair.
Speaker 7 (33:46):
I mean I think it was you know, I was
always thinking if you could get him at fifty, which
you know, it's amazing to say those numbers, If you
get him at fifty and haven't build it up to
fifty five fifty seven, I'm comfortable with that's. I don't
think it's far off. I think it's a good deal.
I mean, it's a great deal for Brock. Pretty how
much is enough?
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Right?
Speaker 7 (34:04):
And I think that that's what you've got to look
at with this situation, you know, the I think the
reason why the number wasn't a little bit lower is
that you know, both John Lynch and Kyle Shanahan, we're
very vocal about how much they love them, and so
that gave the agent every reason to just say, yeah,
I don't need to hurry this deal.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
You guys just know this is where our ranges and
that's which we're going to be.
Speaker 7 (34:24):
And so he came in below the you know, the
magical fifty five number that a lot of guys hit.
I'm fine with the deal. He's a winner, and I
think it's the right move for the forty nine ers.
I'm in agreement with signing them.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Can they win with him at quarterback and the roster
they have now.
Speaker 7 (34:42):
Yeah, if they can, if they can get everybody there right,
could Trent Williams put through a season. I think that's
gonna be a big piece of it. It's going to
be like it's gonna be helped this thing. I think
from an offensive standpoint, they're going to be in good shape.
Brandon and you hopefully be back. Rickey Pearsov's I've talked.
I'm a huge fan. Obviously, Kittle still there and Chris
I think they could score some points and defensively, yeah,
(35:03):
there's some things missing.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
But that's why you saw them be so aggressive in
the draft.
Speaker 7 (35:07):
Right, I mean they took their gosh, what was it,
basically their first five picks all on defense, or first
four picks all went defense for a reason. They understood
where they sat at that position. And you know, these
guys are gonna have to step up, but I think
they can. I think they could be competitive.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
And I think when.
Speaker 7 (35:24):
You think about the NFC West, you gotta like the
Rams and what they've done. Arizona's the sleeper team, but
I'm not counting out San Francisco. Any one of those
three teams could win that division.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Okay, So if you're if you're back in your position
as gentle manager in three years, what's so likely did
you allow one of your players under contract to play
flag football in the Olympics.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
That's your question? Oh? Slim and none. I mean it's so.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Hard, none, zero chance. Like I'm old enough, I'm old
enough to remember, and obviously I don't remember Robert Edwards, right,
So for.
Speaker 7 (36:04):
People anybody who's been around.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Yes, yes, And for people who don't know, I'm sorry, Mark,
I know you know I'm gonna say this was about
twenty years ago, right, somewhe in neighborhood. Two years ago,
he was he had a very good rookie year with
the Patriots, and at the Pro Bowl they played like
a sand football game? Is that right? And then and
then his yeah, it might have been rookies in second
(36:29):
year's rookies against second years, or maybe rookie rookie whatever
doesn't matter. Point is like, what could happen sand football?
It's Hawaii. What happened was his knee turned the wrong way.
His knee turned like wow, and obviously he was never
the same, Like, there's just I don't even know why
it's being discussed. There's no chance any of these guys
(36:50):
are allowed to play by their NFL club, are they?
Speaker 4 (36:54):
I mean I would have.
Speaker 7 (36:55):
A really really really hard time doing that. It h
you know, I mean it was nineteen ninety eight, and
so it was. It's just something that everybody who's ever
been around the game is going to absolutely think about
every second. So could this be another rucker? Because the
Robert came up of a huge yea yeah, a thousand
yards cut the ball in the backfield.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
You know, over ten touchdowns. It was like, Wow, this
guy's going to be the guy.
Speaker 7 (37:18):
And then boom. It's all gone in a blink, and
so it's going to be very hard pressed for me
to want to let somebody out there. I'm with you, Doug.
It's easy for me to sit behind the desk and go, hey, look,
go get a gold medal. But it's also my career
that's online, and that coaches career and the rest of
the players in that locker room's career that if you
go down to something crazy, you happen to be the
(37:39):
unlucky player that can have ramifications throughout the entire franchise,
and that, to me, it is hard to imagine putting.
Speaker 4 (37:44):
Them out there.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Travis Hunter, what do you do in terms of one
to play both sides of the footbell?
Speaker 7 (37:50):
Yeah, even they're showing you not like he I appreciate it.
It's such a feel good story. It makes the Jacksonville
Jaguar fans feel better. They're like, oh, we got our
number one receiver and our number one corner. It's not
going to happen in the National Football League.
Speaker 4 (38:02):
It's just there's no way in his side.
Speaker 7 (38:04):
I don't think it's possible that you can go out
there and play one hundred and ten and twenty hundred
and thirty snaps and not break down. It's just it's
not gonna happen if you can't do it. The guys
are too big, too strong. I still think he should
play corner and have packages on offense or yeah, you
want to put him out.
Speaker 4 (38:20):
Of a series here and a series there.
Speaker 7 (38:21):
Sure, But you know what, if I'm on defense, you
know I'm gonna what I'm gonna do if I'm If
I'm on offense and he's on defense, I'm going to
go routes on him all the time.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
I know that. I mean, listen, Stanford did that Tim
two years ago. It absolutely worked. Mark, great stuff is always.
Thank you so much for being our guest.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
Thanks for having me on Budy.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
That's Mark Dominic, former gentle manager of the Tampay Buccaneers.
Joints us every week here in the Doug Gottlieb Show.
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That's because the New York Nickobakas took down the Indiana
Pacers Tyrese Haliburton off of one of the one of
(00:51):
the greatest games we've ever seen played statistically to just
a guy, right, like literally just a guy like Yeah,
who's the guy who like people are arguing about being
a superstar, like that guy one with eight points and
eight shots. Yeah, I don't know. We'll get to that.
(01:14):
We got a lot of interesting stuff. Mark Dominic's gonna
join us. We'll get you ready. As we got OTAs
getting underway. This another strange tale on the long and
winding path of Zion Williamson. We'll get to that next hour,
but I want to start with this. We talked about
(01:37):
it some yesterday, but it does relate to all sports.
And you know, there's been a push in the NBA
for I don't know, seven eight years. You know what
we should do is have fewer games, don't have back
to backs, too much travel, quality of the product's not great.
(01:57):
We should have fewer games. Aor League Baseball used to
have one fifty four they have won sixty two. There
was there's been years which there's been talking of. You
know what we need to do is have We've had
the contraction fewer teams and we've had the fewer games thing.
And if you'll notice the NFL, which is the healthiest,
(02:19):
they're fighting on more games, but they end up always
getting them right. There was a long fight over Game seventeen,
but they got it, and now there is a fight
over Game eighteen, but they're going to get it because
the NFL makes money every time they play a football game,
and everybody likes to make money. And there's a lot
(02:40):
of reasons why NBA games, why Major League baseball games
won't be contracted. But for the most part, there's just
one reason. That reason is money. And I do think
that there are people who don't understand, even people in power,
(03:04):
who don't understand exactly what is valuable about your sport.
The brilliance of the NFL is not just increasing regular
season games. They've increased playoff games. Those are the most watched,
those are the most important, and those are the ones
which you can print money by just simply putting out there,
which they have right. They want to negotiate ESPN a
(03:26):
new deal. Wanto ESPN to keep paying through the nose
from undernet football. Hey, we'll throw in a wild card
football game. It's a game that you never had, we
never had before. You know you're going to get twenty
five million people or so watching. Again, the value is remarkable.
So I bring this to the NCAA tournament in college basketball,
(03:48):
where everyone says, you know, it's perfect. Why expand Then
there's a story out today where some people, some executive
some TV executives think there's not much value in it.
That you're talking about early first round games, not much
more value. Yeah, it doesn't doesn't do much. Won't be
(04:12):
much more money made by the NCAA. So here's the response.
The first thing is, I need you to listen to me, really,
really carefully. I told you long time ago that Lebron
James wasn't leaving LA. I told you a matter of
fact before he signed in LA that of any of
the teams that he was considering, he will never play
in San Antonio because San Antonio back when Greg Popfitch
(04:35):
was the coach, and they'll still have this mantra. It
was get over yourself. Lebron James is a great player,
one of the all time greatest players, not just in
his sport, in any sport to play. But there's one
thing that he's not. It's over himself. I told you
it would not happen. It's not even part of the consideration.
Just like I told you this year. I don't care
what Rich Paul says. He wasn't considering doing anything other
(04:56):
than come back for the Lakers. The only issue now
is how is Lebron James going to hang around for
Bronnie's rookie year? Make them draft Bronnie, not make him
draft Brice. All right, but let's let's not get a
year out for me predicting and telling you that he's
going to stay. His last year with the Lakers is
going to be next year when they draft Bryce James.
(05:16):
They don't have both his sons with him on the
floor at the same time. And as ridiculous as it is,
I mean, you got to put on a ninety five
percent chance of it happening, right, guy wants to be
the perfect father. Can't be the perfect father if you
play favorites and only hang around for Bronnie when you
clearly can hang out for Bryce's that's not playing favorites anyway.
(05:40):
I told you lebron wasn't retiring. I told you wasn't
going to San Antonio. I told you wasn't going anywhere else.
I'm telling you now. Major League Baseball and in the
NBA are not contracting games because all those sites, all
those arenas, they have a certain number of dates which
are part of the least agreement. Everybody makes money on it,
and unless athletes and coaches and front office is going
(06:04):
to take less money from less profit, they're not going
to ever contract the games ever. And my guess is
with the NCAAA they will only do this if it
opens up their TV window for negotiating you because people
(06:25):
are right, like, there is some value to it, But
if those are first four games, what's really the value.
The value in the NCAA Tournament is the sixty four
team bracket. That's what everybody bets on. It's everybody gambles on,
everybody turns in. That's where your grandma has just as
good a shot as you do of winning a set
of state knives. And if you expand to seventy two
(06:47):
seventy six, you can still be cute and make those
play in games. But if you make those playing games,
you're still only going to get a couple of million viewers.
And you're talking about expanding from sixty eight to seventy two,
two more basketball games. That's it, two more basketball games
to seventy six. Its formre basketball games. So does that
(07:09):
value sure? Is it untold millions of dollars? Yeah? So
the prediction is is this Ryan Bersching or is this
Sam is this Isaac lowincron one? There is zero chance
they're not going to expand. Zero And you're like, why
(07:33):
would they expand? Why would they try? Because they can
make more money and right now, no matter what you think,
everybody needs more money because now you got to pay
the players, and all the calculations are screwed up because
previously you plan for it. Hey, the men's basketball takes this,
(07:55):
football takes this. Everybody else gets this. Coaches get this.
This is what we do for Scott, this is what
we do now all a sudden, you're talking from you know,
a couple hundred thousand at our level to ten to
twenty million at the highest level. That money comes from.
It all comes from one pot, basically, and the only
(08:16):
way to increase that pot is to find valuable assets.
And the only valuable asset the NCAA has in basketball
is the tournament. The problem is, unless it triggers a
completely new round of negotiations for their TV rights, it
just doesn't have that much value. And if they do
(08:38):
it despite the fact it doesn't have that much value,
and they only increase it by I don't know ten
they're making a billion a year, what's a billion dollar
deal whatever, unless it increases at a huge rate because
they can open it up to open bidders, doesn't have
a lot of value. It just does not. And if
(09:03):
that's the case, then you know that there is desperation
in the streets to get any possible last dollar. That's
when you're basically going to a pawnshop and just hey,
just give me what you can. I'll take whatever you
can give me. I just need some money here. So
(09:25):
either TV becomes a pawnshop for college basketball and college
sports because it's all kind of wrapped together, not the
not college football, or what I think is more likely,
is there some sort of sort of clause where they
can reopen negotiations if they get to more games, and
that's the only way they get the negotiations either way.
(09:48):
I get it. I love the sixty fourteen bracket. I'm
all for it. But I also understand that everything costs
more money, and the only way to make more money
is to sell the most valuable thing you have, and
that's the NCAA Tournament. All Right, We got a bunch
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(10:14):
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Speaker 2 (10:56):
Right wig three Broughts it off the triple he cut
it in one four point play opportunity for Brunston at
the next half at eighty one's sixty four league.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Uh so there's I mean, look, Brunson was great, Carl
Anthony Towns was great, and the Knicks controlled the game,
and then you got Tyrese Haliburton who played thirty two
minutes and only scored eight points and just very pedestrian stats.
And look, it will all be forgotten if he has
(11:30):
another spectacular performance in Game six when they close out
the Knicks. But this is the if you ever wondered
why people don't consider Tyrese Haliburton among the best of
the best of the best in terms of point guards
in the league. There's your answer, because there are just
some games in which he's just a guy out there.
(11:50):
And look again, I could even say to myself, dude,
that's a lot a burden to always but that's the
that's the gig, right, that's the gig. So you may
not like it. You may think it's unfair, you may
think it's over the judgmental of one game here or
(12:12):
one game there. Again, I think you're probably right. Unfortunately,
that's how big boy sports are played. In a game
of that magnitude, albeit on the road, you just can't
have a he's just out there now, maybe they're saving
their energy, maybe they're laying in wait, they're waiting to
(12:32):
run the knicks off the floor in game six possibility.
And again, I'm about making the right play, not just
trying to force things. But he was a little passive.
He did just kind of play. They kind of went
through the motions and they get their asses beat. I
(12:53):
do have a step on Diggs opinion. I want to
get to Mark Domini's going to join us we got
game time upcoming as well. Thanks for listening to The
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(13:16):
It is the Doug Gottlieb Show you listen to Fox
Sports Radio. So I've got a lot of thinking on
the Stefan Diggs thing. And I know he signed a
three year deal. I know he's coming off knee injury.
I know he's really talented, although he's more towards the
end not towards the beginning of his career. So I'm
(13:36):
not saying his career is over, but I I'm telling
you right now, I would cut him. I don't think it.
I don't even think it's a question. And you may
say to yourself, hey, Doug, he wasn't taking those drugs
on the video. The drugs that are in was it
(13:59):
two sy that's called the pink cocaine aren't necessarily cocaine.
Ketamine can be that's puny illegal. It's not even the point. Okay,
it's not even the point. The point is that he
knew he was being filmed, whether he knew he was
going to be sent out to the world or not,
(14:20):
and he quite obviously didn't care. The one thing he
did care about is why he gave the women the
drugs that they could take. He didn't even have to
take it himself. I don't care. You're Mike Vrabel, and
though Vrabel is a player's coach, that doesn't mean you're
a pushover. And I get you know, professional sports, there's
(14:43):
lots that we don't know. We don't know how many
guys take recreational drugs. We don't I think perception is
worse than reality. Although maybe I'm wrong, you know, maybe
I'm too much for prude. I truly do not know.
But it looks awful, awful awful to have and brasionally
(15:09):
hand out some drugs while being filmed and not even
going like, hey, don't fill that, or wait till the
camera's not rolling, and then you do it again doesn't
make it right. It's just every layer of it. And
then when you factor in. Okay, Steffan Diggs leaves the bills,
they get better. Steffan Diggs is added to Houston, they
(15:32):
get worse. Not all his fault because he got hurt.
I got it. But if there's one thing I've learned,
and I already knew, but I've learned, is chemistry is everything.
And you could sit there and go like, hey, that
looks like a little chemical kit, right, That's exactly what
pink cocaine is. It's a chemical creation where you put
a little this and a little that in. That's funny,
(15:53):
It's really funny. I just I'd cut him. I wouldn't
really think twice about it.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Yes, Sam, I'll go back to this. I feel like
if Bill Belichick was still the coach he would have been,
he would have been gone after this. It's just a distraction.
And I don't know what this does if they do
get rid of Stefan Diggs. I mean he's thirty one.
What this would do to New England's depth at wide receiver.
I can't even think off the top of my head.
Who there are other options? Are? Like their tight end
(16:22):
didn't uh is is it Hunter Henry? Yah?
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:27):
So like they have a good tight end. But I
can't I think that they're going to keep him because
they don't have anybody else to throw the ball to.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Again, I've been there before. And as much as you say, like, hey,
how can we do that, you can't do anything if
you allow that to be part of your program. I
don't know if Bill Belichick would have I know we
all have an impression of Bill Belichick as his hardcore disciplinarian.
I mean, he did have Aaron Hernandez on his team,
(16:57):
you know, like they only got rid of aeron Is
because they had to. And it appears that Internet was
doing a lot of stuff. And that's where we don't
know the inner workings of teams and what really happens
and what guys are really doing and they really get caught.
And that that's why I'm not being a mortalist about it.
I'm not saying you do drugs, you're off the team.
I'd like it to be that way, but I don't
(17:17):
know enough. Neither do any of us. But but you're
being filmed girlfriends downstairs, sleeping it off. You had three
girls you're clearly hitting on. You break out some some
pink cocaine and you brazenally make you know, don't hide
it from any camera, and you're having just a great time.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
I just buy it's not even so much drugs starting.
It's the filming thing. It's it's the it's the creating
of a distraction, you know, right.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
It's it's both. It's the it's the womanizing, the the drugs,
but also wrap in with the camera and allowing it
out to the world. I just I could be dead
wrong And yeah, yeah, if he was, you know, twenty
six year old Stefan Diggs, would you would it be different?
(18:14):
I'd hope it wouldn't, but the reality is it would.
He's thirty one, and it's just a terrible look for
a guy coming off of an injury injured year and
coming off of getting shipped away by you know, he's
been shipped away by three teams. And maybe now you're
seeing why. Now you're seeing why? Uh, Eilo, what do
(18:34):
you say?
Speaker 4 (18:34):
We?
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Mark Dom was going to join us bottom half of
the hour. How about we get to a game.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Well, let's do it. And today's game on this lovely Friday.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Is let's get this started. Let's get the start on
the right foot.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Here, Let's let's there we go.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
This is game time game on the Doug Gottlieb Show.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
All right, what you got there, I though I got.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
DIBs all right, gang, ye, let's start at Madison Square Garden.
You know the focus of the basketball world now with
this riveting Eastern Conference Finals series. But I want you
guys to turn the focus to the first few rows,
(19:18):
and I want you to pick who you got DIBs
on amongst the great number of New York Knicks celebrity fans.
Who do you have DIBs on celebrity New York nick fans?
Speaker 1 (19:37):
So?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
I got DIBs on Ben Stiller. I've always liked him.
He's a good comedic mind. He's comedic royalty, him and
his father. I've always liked Ben Stiller. I think he's
a nice guy and his some of his movies in
the nineties were some of my favorites of all time.
Ben Stiller I got DIBs on.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
And he's not a Johnny come Lately either.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Oh yeah, he's a pure He's a pure, purest New
York sports fan.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Am I allowed to make a selection here? Yes, yes,
I'm actually gonna draft Timothy Schallomey.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
You're drafting him.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
I got DIBs on Timothy, or callame, because dude, I
really know nothing about him as an actor, and I
first had a bad impression of him as a Johnny
Come Lately. But he is a legitimate old school Knicks fan,
so I know nothing about his thespian capabilities. Yeah, like
back as a kid. He there's a picture of him
(20:31):
like with a couple of Knicks, like twelve years ago
when he was like twelve or whatever. So I do
have grudging respect for Timothy Shallowy as not a bandwagon
Knicks fan.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Tim tell May I learned yesterday day before. He's the
one in Dune.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Yes, yes, he's in Dune.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Have you seen Dune? I love?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Uh No, I wrote on one back in the day,
but uh it was a joke.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
He is a good He is a big Spool fan.
Like he's gonna be one of those guys because he's
twenty nine years old. He's gonna be popping up a
game day and you know, a big noon kickoff, and
he's gonna be one of those guys that loves to
show up at sporting events and be seen and talk
about sports. So he's cool. He's a cool dude.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Because one of these things that I find really annoying
is a team makes the conference finals or the finals
in its respective sport, and a bunch of celebrities just
show up to be seen and get their picture taken,
and they squeeze out the true sports fans. But by
the way, you guys know that the likes of Spike
Lee and Chris Rock are still out there for you
guys to have DIBs on. I'm just saying, what are
(21:33):
you doing.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
I just took it to pick I Low Rocks. Dude.
All right, I'm gonna go with Tracy Morgan.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Yeah, good one, Right, that's what I missed.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Let's go Tracy Morgan. All my thinking is, obviously Spike
Lee is synonymous as celebrity Knicks fan, but I do
think I'm just kind of tired of the Spike Lee thing.
That's it. So I'm gonna go Tracy Morgans. We're gonna
really die at a Knicks game.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
I mean, yes, he has paid a documented price to
be a Knicks fan.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
He had an accident on the court, but also he
was involved. Yeah, well he actually did almost really die.
I think he his like tour bus was hit by
like a Walmart semi or something and bad car accident.
I loved him on SNL. I loved him on thirty rockets,
a goodchoine.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
No, no, no, he was a drunk driver hit him
right or something like that.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
I think it was like a Walmart semi. I'll check
on that, Okay.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
I I will take Spike Lee just because I think
he still does need to be taken by someone. At
least for me growing up, the most famous member of
the New York Knicks was Spike Lee in my generate,
because I'm I'm thirty two years old, so it wasn't
like the Knicks where ever, really like great when I
was young, So I kind of have always associated Spike
Lee with the Knicks.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Well, Bursch, it looks like you did the right thing. Sorry,
all right, don't.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Be Does he know what that's I do?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
I do? Yes, yes, do the right thing barely.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
I think he made the cutoff by about a year
or so. All right. So for our next edition of
I Guy Dibbs will kind of ask you to look
in your crystal ball a bit here because we have
technically three teams to pick from here. I want you
guys to get DIBs on potential NBA Finals MVPs. This
obviously from the thunder from the Pacers and the Knicks.
(23:23):
Who do you got DIBs on is the most likely
NBA Finals MVP?
Speaker 1 (23:27):
I got Dibson, shake Yildes Alexander very good. Sorry, is boring, but.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Not boring at all. I'll take Tyre Saliburton.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Dang.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
I think he's going to come back to Indianapolis for
this game and go off. I think if I just
feel it, feel it in my bones. But yeah, we're
talking about the finals. M you know what, I'll just go.
I'll go with Jalen Brunson. If they somehow pull us
come back off and get to the finals.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
It's good, all right, very good, guys, all right, net
do any one more pick?
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (23:57):
I was gonna take Jalen Brunson, So.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Okay, So he's not there, so now you got to
pick somebody else.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Jeez, how about Hartenstein?
Speaker 1 (24:06):
No?
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Boy? You know what when we just.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Like to say Hartenstein, Yeah, when we're talking about.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Yeah, we're talking about NBA Finals MVPs, I'm not sure
there's really anybody else.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
I mean, I would say Jalen Brown won it last year.
It wasn't Jason Tatum, Andre Gadalo won it one year,
not Stephan Steph.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Curry about Pascal.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
J Dove Jalen Williams.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Yeah, all right, I'm gonna go passcal Siakam. I apologize
to Greg Doyle for that one inside a sports media joke.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
All right.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Next, we're going to turn to Major League Baseball, and
this weekend we have the rematch of the World Series
between the Dodgers and the Yankees. So I got I
want you guys to pick who you got DIBs on
as the star of this rematch series between the two
rosters between the Yankees and the Dodgers starting tonight, which
(25:04):
you can catch at least maybe one and a half
percent of you can catch on Apple TV Plus. So
who you got DIBs on? Stars from the this weekend's
Dodgers Yankee series.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Show?
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Hey Otani, I'll just take him right away, shocked jump
right in.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Uh, I'm gonna go with.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
I got DIBs on Cody Bellinger, former Dodger the Cubs,
now with the Yankees kind of revived his career, you know.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Aaron Judge.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
I can't go wrong with a Judge eighteen home runs. Okay,
So there we go. Did you did you?
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (25:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Berthet you got? Sorry, There's plenty of good choices available. Isaac.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Yeah, all right, so we're gonna do one more baseball
one and then another one to send us out here.
You know, Doug, you were talking about the NCAA tournament
pool of teams and also as it relates to the
length of the NFL schedule, and it's all about money.
And I know that it's all about money and it
(26:18):
would never necessarily happen. But you mentioned that Major League
Baseball used to be a one hundred and fifty four
game schedule. What would your ideal length be for a
Major League Baseball regular season schedule? What do you guys
got DIBs on? And I'm going to start by saying
one hundred and thirty games like they do in Japan,
So one thirty for me. How about the rest of y'all?
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Uh, problem one thirty is you're just you're hungry surely
thereafter for games that's Chinese food, I know. But I
would say, uh, hundred sixty two games.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Okay, fair, fair enough, that's certainly a keeping the status quo.
You guys, I would say it's probably between one thirty
with the two of.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
You, I'll take sixty. Because the Dodgers are undefeated in
the World Series, in terms.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Of sixty game seasons. So let's keep that rolling.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
You want a two month regular season starting August first,
and then at the end of September, sixty game season.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
We can have three seasons a year.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
We can do it at the all time home run
record twenty three.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Alright, Sam, I'll just go on the I'll go on
the opposite end of that. I'll just say two hundred
and fifty games a year round baseball. No rest such
as perpetual motion of baseball. So there's making money hand
over fist.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
And there is an assembly line of pictures in the
waiting room of well, not doctor jobs clinic, but.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
For off the IL, for backplaying. You're back on the IL.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
It's just yes, your life. There's no break for torn ligaments.
So wow, we had a wider spectrum on this. That
our final item on this edition of I got dibbs
Tennis Grand Slams. Obviously we're in the midst of the
French Open. We have four people in the room. Who
do you got DIBs on the best tennis Grand Slam?
Speaker 3 (28:10):
I got DIBs on Wimbledon. Right. I've been to London
a couple of times. I've not been inside that stadium.
But it's cool. That live Queen concert from the eighties
was badass.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
So I got damns on the US Open.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Ah, you beat me to it. So I'm gonna say,
French Open.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Australia is all nine.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
All right, looks like it's been a good day for you.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Brush.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Whow Why the French Open there?
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Doug? All right?
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Sorry?
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Why the US opened their.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Doug Because it's the best America. No hard courts, hardcourts,
great fans, you know, it's it's I mean, playing surface wise,
it's not. It's it's the most used, most well regarded,
(28:55):
right whereas playing in the clay, which is like playing
in the dirt, is a completely different style. Same thing
with Wimbledon, but more than anything, just the fans of
New York, the energy there. It's a tournament unlike anything
else in the sport or in most professional sports.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
And that's game, set and match. See what I did
there for this edition of igotdibs.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
Game This is game time on the Doug Gottlieb Show.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Yes, the Doug Gottlieb Show on Fox Sports Radio coming
up next. If you're running the Patriots, which you cut
Stefan Diggs I'll ask a man who ran the Buccaneers next.
Thanks for listening to The Doug Gotlieb Show podcast. Be
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(29:44):
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show rolls on here on a Friday on Fox Sports Radio.
You know, at that curious time when the when the
Western Conference Finals are and now we're waiting on game six.
Plus you got OTAs baseball. I mean, look, I know
(30:07):
baseball's going to go going on, but it's not like
it's it's reached any sort of crescendo or any sort
of of time of interest. I actually think the NFL
and these OTAs might be the most interesting because we're
starting to kind of sort of get a sense of
who's who, what's what. Still got a couple of guys
holding in, holding out doing their thing. Mark Dominic joins us,
former gentleman manager of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Uh, he's
(30:29):
worked his entire life in professional football. Mark let me
let me, ask you, Stefan Diggs. I just said, look,
I'd get rid of them. I would You know you
haven't played it down for the Patriots. There is an
image issue there, but it's not as look, the drugs
obviously bother me, but it's more like he's being filmed,
(30:52):
he knows he's being filmed, and he brazenly rips that,
whips out some drugs and hands it to a woman like.
I don't know. I just think it sets a terrible
look for an organization that's trying to get back on
the right path. I know he's been a really a
very good player for a good amount of time, but
there's always been some sort of unspoken chemistry issues which
(31:14):
keeps him moving from team to team to team. What
would you do if you're a gentleman manager of the Patriots.
Speaker 7 (31:19):
I think you make a very strong point in terms
of there's a reason why he's been moving from team
to team to team. I mean that, I think is
an underlying thing you have to look at. The first
thing you have to think about is when you have
an elite receiver in Minnesota's like, you.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
Know what, We're okay, Buffalo Like, yeah, you know, it's
not a fit.
Speaker 7 (31:33):
Houston's like, you can have him, so you know in
this situation, you know, the hard part is you gave
him twelve million dollars a sign on a three year deal.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
Can you walk out of this? Yes? Could want.
Speaker 7 (31:44):
Of all teams, they can, because it's the Patriots that
have the space.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
You know.
Speaker 7 (31:48):
I think this is one of those ones where I
have to have a conversation with them first understand what's
going on. But I don't disagree to Doug as much
as that's hard to do. And you're trying to build
this team. You got to build it the right way,
and he's not helping you do that right now.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
So would you get rid of him?
Speaker 4 (32:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (32:03):
I have no problems doing that, you know. And then
the reason I say that in a terrible way, I
love Damaro Douglas. I think he's going to be really
good player. I'm not sure where Kyle Wiams is going
to be. Matt Collins, Hollins is a good receiver. Their
hard part that they've got is that they're just trying
to figure out how good is Drake May and they
want to try to give him all the weapons. You
just they couldn't do it in one offseason. That's how
depleted they were. I'm comfortable letting him walk because I
(32:27):
don't want to. I don't want to upset the apple
cart of this football team and make sure that we're
all the same.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
So I'm with you. I would.
Speaker 7 (32:33):
You know, it's a bad look and it was a
bad video. And it wasn't just one videos, multiple videos.
You're like, what's going on here? Like to have some
You're supposed to be a leader.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Yeah, yeah, thirty one years old. I was supposed to
be a vet and this is how you announced your
presence on a new football team. Okay, the Aaron Rodgers
and picture. We keep waiting and waiting and waiting. But
before I get like super critical of he should be there,
he should you know whatever. The Steelers have to know, right,
(33:01):
It's not like they're sitting there they don't know what
his plan is, correct.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
I agree.
Speaker 7 (33:06):
I think they have to know, and I think they
do know. There's no way that at this point they're
just like, well, we'll just wait and see a little
bit longer and if he comes around, he does.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
No.
Speaker 7 (33:12):
I think Mike Tomlin knows. I think the organization knows
what it is, and you know, you can go one
way to the other. You're just not going to say anything,
and they're just going to let Aaron handle it however
he wants to. And again, Aaron might be on a
hiking tour through the Himalayans right now and just has
to get done with it. I have no idea, but
I do think that they certainly know and I still
think that he'll sign to Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Stett Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Okay, now
that the Brock party, we're starting to see some of
the numbers come out. What do you think of the deal?
Speaker 4 (33:45):
I think it's fair.
Speaker 7 (33:46):
I mean I think it was you know, I was
always thinking if you could get him at fifty, which
you know, it's amazing to say those numbers, If you
get him at fifty and haven't build it up to
fifty five fifty seven, I'm comfortable with that's. I don't
think it's far off. I think it's a good deal.
I mean, it's a great deal for Brock. Pretty how
much is enough?
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Right?
Speaker 7 (34:04):
And I think that that's what you've got to look
at with this situation, you know, the I think the
reason why the number wasn't a little bit lower is
that you know, both John Lynch and Kyle Shanahan, we're
very vocal about how much they love them, and so
that gave the agent every reason to just say, yeah,
I don't need to hurry this deal.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
You guys just know this is where our ranges and
that's which we're going to be.
Speaker 7 (34:24):
And so he came in below the you know, the
magical fifty five number that a lot of guys hit.
I'm fine with the deal. He's a winner, and I
think it's the right move for the forty nine ers.
I'm in agreement with signing them.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Can they win with him at quarterback and the roster
they have now.
Speaker 7 (34:42):
Yeah, if they can, if they can get everybody there right,
could Trent Williams put through a season. I think that's
gonna be a big piece of it. It's going to
be like it's gonna be helped this thing. I think
from an offensive standpoint, they're going to be in good shape.
Brandon and you hopefully be back. Rickey Pearsov's I've talked.
I'm a huge fan. Obviously, Kittle still there and Chris
I think they could score some points and defensively, yeah,
(35:03):
there's some things missing.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
But that's why you saw them be so aggressive in
the draft.
Speaker 7 (35:07):
Right, I mean they took their gosh, what was it,
basically their first five picks all on defense, or first
four picks all went defense for a reason. They understood
where they sat at that position. And you know, these
guys are gonna have to step up, but I think
they can. I think they could be competitive.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
And I think when.
Speaker 7 (35:24):
You think about the NFC West, you gotta like the
Rams and what they've done. Arizona's the sleeper team, but
I'm not counting out San Francisco. Any one of those
three teams could win that division.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Okay, So if you're if you're back in your position
as gentle manager in three years, what's so likely did
you allow one of your players under contract to play
flag football in the Olympics.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
That's your question? Oh? Slim and none. I mean it's so.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Hard, none, zero chance. Like I'm old enough, I'm old
enough to remember, and obviously I don't remember Robert Edwards, right,
So for.
Speaker 7 (36:04):
People anybody who's been around.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Yes, yes, And for people who don't know, I'm sorry, Mark,
I know you know I'm gonna say this was about
twenty years ago, right, somewhe in neighborhood. Two years ago,
he was he had a very good rookie year with
the Patriots, and at the Pro Bowl they played like
a sand football game? Is that right? And then and
then his yeah, it might have been rookies in second
(36:29):
year's rookies against second years, or maybe rookie rookie whatever
doesn't matter. Point is like, what could happen sand football?
It's Hawaii. What happened was his knee turned the wrong way.
His knee turned like wow, and obviously he was never
the same, Like, there's just I don't even know why
it's being discussed. There's no chance any of these guys
(36:50):
are allowed to play by their NFL club, are they?
Speaker 4 (36:54):
I mean I would have.
Speaker 7 (36:55):
A really really really hard time doing that. It h
you know, I mean it was nineteen ninety eight, and
so it was. It's just something that everybody who's ever
been around the game is going to absolutely think about
every second. So could this be another rucker? Because the
Robert came up of a huge yea yeah, a thousand
yards cut the ball in the backfield.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
You know, over ten touchdowns. It was like, Wow, this
guy's going to be the guy.
Speaker 7 (37:18):
And then boom. It's all gone in a blink, and
so it's going to be very hard pressed for me
to want to let somebody out there. I'm with you, Doug.
It's easy for me to sit behind the desk and go, hey, look,
go get a gold medal. But it's also my career
that's online, and that coaches career and the rest of
the players in that locker room's career that if you
go down to something crazy, you happen to be the
(37:39):
unlucky player that can have ramifications throughout the entire franchise,
and that, to me, it is hard to imagine putting.
Speaker 4 (37:44):
Them out there.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Travis Hunter, what do you do in terms of one
to play both sides of the footbell?
Speaker 7 (37:50):
Yeah, even they're showing you not like he I appreciate it.
It's such a feel good story. It makes the Jacksonville
Jaguar fans feel better. They're like, oh, we got our
number one receiver and our number one corner. It's not
going to happen in the National Football League.
Speaker 4 (38:02):
It's just there's no way in his side.
Speaker 7 (38:04):
I don't think it's possible that you can go out
there and play one hundred and ten and twenty hundred
and thirty snaps and not break down. It's just it's
not gonna happen if you can't do it. The guys
are too big, too strong. I still think he should
play corner and have packages on offense or yeah, you
want to put him out.
Speaker 4 (38:20):
Of a series here and a series there.
Speaker 7 (38:21):
Sure, But you know what, if I'm on defense, you
know I'm gonna what I'm gonna do if I'm If
I'm on offense and he's on defense, I'm going to
go routes on him all the time.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
I know that. I mean, listen, Stanford did that Tim
two years ago. It absolutely worked. Mark, great stuff is always.
Thank you so much for being our guest.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
Thanks for having me on Budy.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
That's Mark Dominic, former gentle manager of the Tampay Buccaneers.
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